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With this simple explanation, then, of the name of the Duloe 

 region, — shewing that most likely, after all, it did not origina,te 

 in connection with the rugged ring of Stonetown (known amongst 

 Archaeologists as the Duloe Circle), but is descriptive of the 

 situation of the district itself, the tract of country by the 

 running water, adjoining the tidal pool, near the towns of Looe, 

 — we conclude our investigation of the general name of the 

 locality. 



The Duloe Circle and its neighbouring structures were 

 mapped and described by Mr. McLauchlan, in 1845 ; (see R.I.C. 

 Report, 1846, pages 1 — 19, "Giant's Hedge," &c.); the circle 

 being shewn as 260 yards N.E. of the Church, with 6 of its 8 

 stones standing. He fancied that the fallen stones exhibited the 

 "overthrow of Baal's altar," in this "High-place," — 440 feet 

 above the sea-level. He noted the prevalence of oak and vervain, 

 near, and imagined that the circle was Druidical. The mound 

 he regarded as named from the Saxon loe, and the district (from 

 it) Dru-lo, or Du-lo, — Druids' Hill or Tumulus. All this is more 

 or less unlikely. 



Stone-Town, likewise, he held to be called after the Circle- 

 stones, whilst Tremodart, close by, he also deemed, perhaps 

 rightly, to have been named, from the same relics, "Tremoderuy" 

 — "the Place of the Ring." Here was the Domesday manor 

 Tremodret. 



He rejected Hals's and Tonkin's suggestions of Du, God's 

 or black ; lo, river, lake, or water ; and added : — " The real name 

 of the " Duloe river is Shallow-pool river, and I could not hear, 

 from any of the old people, any confirmation of the name Duloe 

 or Black river, given by Martyn in his County Map," — [and 

 quoted, from Martyn, in Wallis's List]. 



McLauchlan's view as to "ring" has the authority of the 

 Cornish Glossary, which gives " Moderuy,=armilla ; and of 

 Williams's Lexicon, " Modereuy,=bracelet," from Mod, thumb ; 

 and ruy, ring. As an armlet Moderuy meant, perhaps, a ring 

 of about a thumb-breadth, or thickness. 



Mr. Borlase, in his " Nsenia " has described Duloe Circle, 

 and favourably refers to McLauchlan's view of Tremodruy, a 



